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Create an all-inclusive bird habitat in your own backyard with plants that provide what birds need most for food, shelter and ...

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By gradually emitting light over a period of time, sunrise alarm clocks mimic a natural sunrise, softly rousing you from your sleep. They can also bring some much-needed light to dark winter mornings.

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Naper Settlement has been awarded $21,000 to help create a sustainable permaculture garden at the heart of its 13-acre museum ...

From indestructible tardigrades to body-merging comb jellies, animals can teach humans so much about medicine, robotics, ...

Convergent evolution is when similar features that have a similar form or function evolve in species from different periods ...

While hedgerows are multilayered, permanent habitats for wildlife, permaculture works as a similar closed-loop system that ...

Stick and leaf insects evolved 20 shared body features for camouflage, aiding survival. Scientists found these traits across ...